Groups want changes to Wind Ethics code

Watertown Daily Times | Groups want changes to code
WIND ETHICS: State's pact being negotiated for many developers
By NANCY MADSEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009


Nearly four months after the state attorney general's office established a code of conduct for wind energy developers, local wind farm developers have not yet signed on.

In fact, only the two out-of-state companies that signed the agreement Oct. 30 have committed to following the attorney general's Wind Industry Ethics Code. Those two companies, Noble Environmental Power LLC, Essex, Conn., and First Wind, Newton, Mass., signed the pact after an investigation by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo into allegations that they were bribing local officials to push through wind projects.